Senior Android Framework Engineer

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

Flock is looking to add an Android Framework Engineer to our Device OS Team. No UI components here! We run on headless custom Android devices. Our Engineering team is made up of driven people who are responsible for all of the code running on a variety of devices Flock deploys in the real world. They enable the whole experience by providing Android Applications, Services, and other key components that reliably capture, process, and upload data for years at a time without needing human interaction to keep them running. 

How you'll make an impact:

• Take responsibility for a feature or module and deliver with high quality.

• Be responsible for a certain amount of QA/quality of your work

• Write automatable code.

• Document work, test cases, and interact with program, product, QA, and other engineers.

• Estimate of work within reasonable accuracy and ability to communicate adjustments.

• Assist in supporting issues reported in the field.

• Additional responsibilities:

  • Be able to negotiate features and schedules

  • Identify and be a proponent of new features that will be beneficial to Flock.

  • Identify deficiencies in products, processes, and improve upon them.

  • Give tech talks.

• Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless kotlin apps via a custom SDK

• Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++

• Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps

• Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to

  • Exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks

  • familiar with Android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc.

  • Unit testing using JUnit and mockk, using facades and dependency injection

• Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development:

  • Including shell scripting experience & init.rc

  • Exposure to security and SE Policy

  • Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW.

  • Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack

• System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc.

• Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation.

• Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub.

Nice to Haves:

• C/C++ skills and expertise with lower levels of the stack such as kernel, services, bootloaders etc.

• Linux kernel driver development experience

• Experience working on Linux platforms, including Embedded Linux

• Familiarity with tools like perfetto used for debugging and performance

• Familiarity with Qualcomm based Android devices

• Experience with Qualcomm Camera Stack

• Experience with Rust programming language

• Have the ability to write automation shell scripts to improve self productivity and share such helper scripts with the team to boost overall productivity.

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as an Android Framework Engineer at Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Learn as much as possible about Flock's devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements

• Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering Team

• Understand Flock device product goals and system design

The First 60 Days 

• Contribute to system apps development

• Contribute to system services development

• Expand the use and accessibility to engineers

90 Days & Beyond 

• Be a key contributor to system apps and system services.

• Be a key contributor in developing the new products and the next generation.

• Play a central role in streamlining the code to ensure it supports multiple platforms

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way. 

1. Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are. 

2. The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field. 

3. The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day. 

4. The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners.

5. The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive in your function and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $149,200-$205,150 as well as stock options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

🌴Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

🧠Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.

💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support 

💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions. 

💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.

🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies. 

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at careers@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.